“I think, yes, it’s also available with Latin texts,” Ines Rehbein and Josef Ruppenhofer answered during a lecture in one of our InFoDiTex sessions on my request. Immediately, I was electrified – to me this was a magic moment, because in most of the digital humanities conferences and summer schools, I learned to know powerful and valuable tools for English or German text corpora. Yet, my corpus covers a bundle of 252 Latin letters written by St. Augustine around the beginning of the 5th century CE. At least in my experience, useful tools for Latin texts are quite rare (I know there are many more possibilities with some skills in programming, but in this context, I’m thinking of hands-on tools for less technical researchers to start with). Continue reading “Veni Vidi Vici? Using the TreeTagger on Latin Texts”

In the spring of 2016, two graduate students in theology sat together during a coffee break: One of them complained: “It is impossible to find the most suitable method to work with my digitized corpus.” The other nagged: “And I can’t find a theory which fits into my way of analysing sources statistically!” Continue reading “InFoDiTex: What We Do and What We Want”

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This is a private blog written by Stefan Karcher and Christopher Nunn, initiators of InFoDiTex.

The Interdisciplinary Forum of Digital Text Sciences at the University of Heidelberg is an open meeting for (junior) researchers in all fields of Digital Humanities. It was founded by doctoral students who meet every month during the semester turn for an informal exchange about theories and methods of digital text analysis and their own projects. On our blog we will share some impulses of the discussions at InFoDiTex.

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